The Navigation of Feeling : A Framework for the History of Emotions (Hardcover)

Preface; Part I. What are Emotions?: 1. Answers from cognitive psychology; 2. Answers from anthropology; 3. Emotional expression as a type of speech act; 4. Emotional liberty; Part II. Emotions in History: France 1700?1850: 5. The flowering of sentimentalism (1700?89); 6. Sentimentalism in the making of the French Revolution (1789?1815); 7. Liberal reason, romantic passions (1815?48); 8. Personal destinies: case material of the early nineteenth century; Conclusion; Appendix A: detailed review of anomalous cases from the Gazette des Tribunaux sample; Appendix B: detailed review of anomalous cases from the Tribunal Civil de Versailles sample; References; Index.